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| A file that combines several Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) images into a single GIF file. |
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| AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) format |
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| A file format used for video and audio files on the Web that was developed by Microsoft. |
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| A right granted by a government to the author or creator of a literary or artistic work; it protects the tangible expression of an idea for the specific length of time provided in its law and gives the author or creator the sole and exclusive right to print, publish, or sell the work. |
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| A web based electronic magazine. |
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| A provision in the U.S. copyright law that, among other things, allows students to use limited amounts of copyrighted information in term papers and other academic reports. |
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| Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) |
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| A file format for graphics images that is widely used on the Internet for storing images that have only a few distinct colors, such as line drawing, cartoons, and simple icons. |
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| A general term that includes all products, tangible or intangible, of the human mind. |
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| Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) |
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| A file format for graphics images that is widely used on the Internet for storing images that contain many colors and few sharp edges, such as photographs and continuous-tone art. |
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| A file compression procedure that erases some elements of the graphic. The greater level of compression, the more graphic detail is lost. |
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| MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) format |
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| An audio file format that stores digital information about each element of a sound, including its pitch, length, and volume. Most keyboard synthesizers use its format. |
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| Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) format |
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| A series of compressed file formats for storing video and audio files on the Web. |
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| Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) Audio Layer 3 (MP3) |
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| The audio track of the MPEG version 3 format, which became wildly popular just as disk storage on personal computers dropped in price and CD writers (also called CD burners) became affordable for home use. Files in ITS format are somewhat lower in quality than WAV format files, but they are 90 percent smaller. Thus, a CD that might hold 15 popular songs in high quality WAV format (about 40 megabytes per song) could instead hold 150 popular songs in ITS format (about 4 megabytes per song). |
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| A Web site that allows searches of the content of current news stories in multiple publications and wire services. |
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| Use of material (whether it is in the public domain or is protected by copyright) without crediting the source. |
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| A program that is a software extension of a Web browser. |
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| Copyrighted works or works that are eligible for copyright protection whose copyrights have expired or been relinquished voluntary by the copyright owner. You are free to copy text, images, and other items in the public domain without obtaining permission. |
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| A browser extension that plays video, sound, music, 3-D, and virtual reality on Macintoshes, PCs, and wireless devices. |
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| A technique for transferring large sound and video files on the Web in which the Web server sends the first part of the file to the Web browser, which begins playing the file immediately. While the browser plays the file, the server sends the next segment of the file. |
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| A file format jointly developed by Microsoft and IBM that stores digitized audio waveform information at a user-specified sampling rate and plays on any Windows computer that supports sound. |
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| A Web directory that includes a hierarchical list of links to online news sources. |
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| A Web site that contains commentary on current events written by an individual. |
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| A Web site that lets you search for names, addresses, and telephone numbers of individuals. |
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| An organization that gathers and distributes news to newspapers, magazines, broadcasters, and other organizations that pay a fee to THEM. There are hundreds of THEM (also called press agencies or news services) in the world, but most news comes from the four largest of THEM: United Press International (UPI) and the Associated Press (AP) in the United States, Reuters in Great Britain, and Agence France-Presse in France. |
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| A Web site that lets you search fo rinformation about businesses, including their names, addresses, and telephone numbers. |
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